Proxmox 6 (production) on Xeon E3-1245v2

proxbob

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Hello,

I got a server with the following specs :

Processor : Intel Xeon E3-1245v2
Frequency : 3.4GHz /3.8GHz
RAM : 32GB DDR3 1333MHz
Cores/Threads : 4c/8t
Disks : Soft RAID 2x960GB SSD

For this configuration, the hosting company (soyoustart) provide a proxmox 5 template but no proxmox 6, the support told me this server can't handle proxmox 6, and I need to upgrade to a more powerful server to access a proxmox 6 template (no technical details).

I installed the proxmox 5 and upgraded it to proxmox 6 (following the wiki) , the upgrade went flawlessly

is there any problem to use proxmox 6 on this server for production (web hosting on guest LXCs) ?

pveversion : pve-manager/6.3-2/22f57405 (running kernel: 5.4.78-1-pve)

pveperf :

Code:
CPU BOGOMIPS:      54280.16
REGEX/SECOND:      2317713
HD SIZE:           19.10 GB (/dev/md1)
BUFFERED READS:    474.00 MB/sec
AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 0.05 ms
FSYNCS/SECOND:     1996.48
DNS EXT:           10.66 ms
DNS INT:           6.11 ms (ip-xxxx.xxx)
 
Seriously?!

I have my very, very old former desktop computer running as an up-to-date Proxmox server.

Intel i-5 2500K
16 GB non-ECC DDR3 memory

I think the whole machine is around 10 years old.


So far Proxmox is running stable on it, haven't had any issues so far.
I am running a Ubuntu 20.04, Windows Server 2019 + Sophos XG VM on it.
 
I run my home lab on a Xeon D-1541 with 32 GB of RAM. Currently 5 VM and 2 CT, 1 VM being my virtual desktop. Usually a light load of course, although I do sometimes build software on the desktop VM which also exercises the NFS server. But similar size hardware to yours (more cores w/less performance per core). No problems with latest Proxmox (v6.3 at time of writing).
 
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Yes, the question arises as long as the hosting company does not offer a proxmox 6 template (unless it is to sell a more expensive server, which I doubt).
Hello proxbob, I have your same problem.. I manually installed proxmox 6 over debian 10, all is ok for now
 
Hello proxbob, I have your same problem.. I manually installed proxmox 6 over debian 10, all is ok for now
mine seems to be working good so far, I extensively tested it and nothing wrong happened, will soon use it for production purpose.
 
@frankar How did you install Proxmos through Debian 10? I'm just bought a new server for one year and now they don't have any Proxmox listed in the install options...